Polls contain a list of teams, often ranked by coaches, and are listed based on the number of "votes" received (20 for first place if 20 teams are ranked, 19 for second, and so forth). Below are examples of college and high school polls for lacrosse.

The primary Men's Division I lacrosse poll is the USILA Coaches' Poll. The first column is the ranking, the second the team name (and its record as of the poll date), the third the number of poll votes (with first-place rankings in parenthesis), and the fourth the ranking in the previous week's poll (where "t" signifies a tie and NR means "not ranked").

LaxPower conducts a high school national poll at the end of the season, where voters (almost exclusively head coaches scattered throughout the nation) rank teams. Results of the boys' 2009 poll are shown below.